Karl Valentin (1882-1948) was a Munich comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin starred in silent films in the 1920s, and was sometimes called the Charlie Chaplin of Germany.

@NeinQuarterly is just plain brülliant:

A subject and a verb walk into a bar. They have a disagreement. They walks out.

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The Stoics, much like Buddhist philosophy, thought humanity’s main problem was attachment. The more attached to external things – jobs, wealth, even loved ones – the more we suffer if we lose those things. Instead, they recommended we only be concerned with what we can control: our own personal virtue. For Stoics, we aren’t vulnerable because the only thing that matters can’t be taken away from us: our virtue.

Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant had similar thoughts. He believed the only thing that mattered for ethics was that we act with a good will. Whatever happened to us or around us, so long as we act with the intention of fulfilling our duties, we’re be in the clear, ethically speaking. It’s our rational nature – our ability to think – that defines us ethically. And thinking is completely within our control.

I agree with all of them, and choose to live fearless. There is no other way if you want to be able to help others and yourself. Angst eats soul.